The rural development ministry, in consultation with the department of financial services, will organise camps in villages to seek consent of the beneficiaries for seeding their bank accounts to their Aadhaar numbers.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said India was making history with the launch of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), that would open the country to limitless possibilities to expand its economic horizons with the regime of one tax, one nation and one market.